A non-linear optimisation method to extract summary statistics from Kaplan-Meier survival plots using the published P value.

Background: Meta-analyses of studies evaluating survival (time-to-event) outcomes are a powerful technique to assess the strength of evidence for a given disease or treatment. However, these studies rely on the adequate reporting of summary statistics in the source articles to facilitate further ana...

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Publicado en:BMC Medical Research Methodology Vol. 20; no. 1
Autores principales: Irvine, Andrew F., Waise, Sara, Green, Edward W., Stuart, Beth
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: BioMed Central 10/30/2020
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